AAAA Records

AAAA is a domain address record, that is essentially the IPv6 address of the web server where the domain is hosted. The IPv6 system was introduced to replace the present IPv4 system where each IP address is comprised of four groups of decimal digits which range from 1 to 255 e.g. 5.168.208.143. In comparison, an IPv6 address has eight groups of four hexadecimal numbers - from 0 to 9 and from A to F. The cause of this transformation is the significantly smaller number of unique IPs the existing system supports as well as the rapid increase of gadgets that are connected to the Internet. A good example of an IPv6 address would be 2101:1f34:32e2:2415:1365:4f2b:2553:1345. If you want to point a domain to a web server that uses such an address, you will have to create an AAAA record for it, not the widespread A record, which is an IPv4 address. The two records provide the very same function, yet different notations are used, so as to differentiate the two types of addresses.

If you'd like to use a domain address or a subdomain that you have in a shared hosting account on our end for any third-party service and you need to create an AAAA record for that, it will not take you more than a few mouse clicks to do this via our amazing, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP. After you navigate to the DNS Records section and click the Create a New Record button, a small pop-up will appear. This is the area in which you can create any DNS record, so you only have to select the needed domain or subdomain and the type of record from drop-down options menu and input the IPv6 address, that is the actual record. In case you have no experience with such matters, you'll not have any difficulties as Hepsia is quite intuitive and the new AAAA record is going to propagate within the hour, so that you can start using your domain/subdomain with the other service provider. If they require it, you're also going to be able to modify the Time To Live (TTL) value for the record, outlining how long it'll stay active in the global DNS system after you edit it or delete it.